YMMV / The Snow Queen (2005)

• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack is this, particularly the series's opening Snow Diamond.
• Cult Classic: While this anime is not as well known, it does have a devoted fanbase that grew up with it.
• Complete Monster: The Devil is the Arch-Enemy of The Snow Queen and as vile as ever. In the past, the Devil killed many members of the Snow Queen's army with lava and eventually killed Holger when the latter tried to stop him, something which the Devil continues to taunt the Snow Queen about in the present. When the mirror the Devil is sealed in is shattered, it scatters pieces across the world, and anyone who comes into contact with the shards is corrupted by the Devil. This brings untold amounts of suffering to many people, such as when a normally kind and gentle King becomes a power-mad tyrant who declares war on neighboring countries. Throughout the show, the Devil manipulates Kay and tempts him to the Garden of Paradise, but when this fails, he puts him to sleep and tries to put him in "eternal darkness". The Devil's final plan is to bring about a literal Hell on Earth, which will turn the world into a barren wasteland. The Devil also takes advantage of the mirror shard in Kay's heart and uses it to control him into attacking the Snow Queen, which is causing him physical pain.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Several years later, Akio Otsuka, who played The Avatar of The Wind in the anime, would eventually do a cover of a well-known song that's from another adaptation of The Snow Queen.
  • The traveling pair of Ragi and Gerda may remind people of Joel and Ellie 8 years later.
• Moment of Awesome: The fact that Gerda managed to travel so much of her world and make it all the way to the Snow Queen's castle, without anyone to help her at certain points too, is a crowning moment in its own right.
  • Ragi's is catching a literal flaming sword with his own two hands and laying the final blow on the Devil.

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